Skirt-marker.



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ALICE CAREY MCDONNELL, OF FVANSTON, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO NETTIE FAIRWEATHER, OF EVANSTON, ILLINOIS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 21, 1906.

Application filed A ia 20, 1905. semi No. 256,645.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, ALroE CAREY McDoN- NELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Evanston, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and use ful Improvements in Skirt-Markers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a skirt-marker intended for use in dressmaking and adapted to form a guide for ascertaining or indicating the length of the skirt and for marking the line thereof around the bottom ed 'e.

It comprises a fiexible banc adjustable in size or diameter which is placed around the skirt at the bottom edge thereof and allowed to rest upon the material thereof where it strikes the floor. A chalk mark may then be made along the band to indicate the fioorline, which is thus at once secured. Allowance either way from this line to make the skirt longer or shorter can be made. For this purpose small indicators or measures are used, which may be set on the band and project upwardly the desired number of inches to enable the skirt to be marked at the place desired, where it is to be cut off.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 being a perspec tive view illustrating the manner of itsuse. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the clamp for adjustably holding the ends of the band. Figs. 3 and 4 are perspective views showing modified forms of clamps.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 indicates a flexible band, preferably made of a strip of metal, but which may be made of any other suitable or desired material. One end of this band is fixed to a clamp 7 by rivets or otherwise, and the other end of the band is free to slide within said clamp to adjust the band to the desired size, said end being retained in position by its frictional contact between the opposite sides of the clamp, consists of a metal strap folded around the strip. At the top the clamp has a projecting flange 8, having a hole 9, adapted to receive the oint of a stick or cane 10., which is held by t e person being fitted and serves to keep the marker in proper position while the dressmaker-is using the chalk.

To indicate lines or marks for a short skirt, a series of notched strips 11 may be fitted to the band by means of a clip 12. These have a scale of inches, say, indicated by notches 13, at which marks can be made around the skirt.

In the modified form shown in Fig. 3 instead of the clamp above indicated the ends of the band are held together by a loop 1 1, fixed near one end of the band and arranged to project through one of the series of slots 15, made in the other end of the band, and the loop receives the cane or pointer for the same purpose above referred to.

In Fig. 4 a clamp is illustrated formed of wire wound around the ends of the band, as indicated at 16, and having a coil 17 to receive the point of the cane. Various other ways of adj ustably fixing the lapped ends of the band will suggest themselves.

To hold the skirt firmly in place while being marked, the band has a series of pins 18, extending around the same, and when the band is adjusted to the proper size and shape on the skirt the pins are forced through the edge of the skirt and into the floor, which holds the skirt firmly while the chalk is being used. The floor-line having beenobtaine in the manner above indicated,'variation in the length or cut of the skirt may be made as desired. Thus for an evening dress a train may be made by cutting beyond the floorline at the back to the extent desired.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A device for marking skirts, comprising a flexible hoop having at its ends an adjustable clamp, and a stick connected to the clamp and extendin upwardly or perpendicularly from the e ge of the hoop, so that when the hoop is horizontally arranged the stick will be vertical, and pins located at several places around the hoop and projecting downwardly below the lower edge thereof.

2. A device for marking skirts, comprising a flexible hoop adjustable in size, and a series of indicators each having a scale, attached to said hoop at various places around the same and projecting upwardly therefrom, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALICE CAREY MGDONNELL.

Witnesses:

SIGNA FEL'rsKoe. H. G. BATo ELon 

